Manifolding sales-book.



E. K. BOTTLE.

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED APILZO, 1912.

Patented Fei). 18,1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD KIHBY BOTTLE, OF ELMLRA, NEW YORK, LSSIGNOB TO AMERICAN SALESBOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, 0 TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OFONTARIO.

MANIFOLDING SALES-BOOK.-

. vices, and with regard to its more specific 7 features, to manifoldingsalcsbooks.

An objectof this invention is to provide,

a triplicating book in which any number of slips and especially theoriginal may be remined in the book without interfering with thesubsequent use of the book.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction,combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will beexemplified inthe construction hereinafter set forth, and thp scope ofthe application of which will be indicated in the following claims,

In the accompanying drawings fornnng part of this specificat on andwherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughoutthe several views,--

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a salesbook embodying this invention;and

Fig. 2 is a sine view showing the arrangement of sheets.

The numeral 1 designates a,support, having at, one end a series ofsingle ply leaves bound together, as by staples 2, to form a pad 3, andattached to the support along their bound edges. This attachment may bebv any convenient means. but an economical aiid eiiicieu't mode ofconstruction is to bind the support on the back ot the pad by thestaples *2. The leaves of the (pad 3 are adapted to form the original anduplicate copies of the sale or other memorandum, and in order to enablethe record to be made upon the duplicate, a double faced transfer sheet4 is operatively associated with the pad in position to be interposedbetween successive pairs of the sheets of the pad.

. A series of single ply leaves adapted to form the triplicate copies ofthe sale or other memorandum are so positioned as to permitSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

Application filed April 20, 1917. Serial No. 163,372.

r of their being interposed in operative'relation to'the sheets of thefirst pad 3 and the transfer sheet. In the embodiment illus-' trated thetriplicate leaves, which are preferably translucent, are bound to etherto form a'pad 4 and are attached to t is end of the support 1 by staples5. By this construction the free ends of the leaves of the pads 3- and4' are toward each other, so that the leaves of the. one pad are easilyinto osed between the leaves of the other, an the leaves of the pad 4may be disposed between the ad 3 and the support 1 when the record haseen made thereon.

In order to attach the transfer sheet in such a way as to permit itsbein inserted between the leaves of the pad 3 w ile at the sametimepermitting the leaves of the pad 4 to be associated in proper'relationship'to the leaves of the pad 3 and to be placed be bind thepad 3 when desired, as shown, an

auxiliary support 5 is provided, comprising a sheet interposed betweenand bound integral with the support 1 and the ad 3, and the transfersheet 4" may be attac ed to the outer end of the auxiliary support 5'.The

1 transfer sheetmay conveniently be notched as at 6 to permit the readyremoval of the sheets from beneath it. The transfer sheet is doublefaced and is adapted to lie over the free ends of the leaves to the backof which it is connected, as illustrated. An auxiliary carbon 7 may alsobe attached to the auxiliary support 5 and folded between the auxiliarysupport and the pad 3. This auxiliary carbon sheet is merely anadditional carbon. sheet similar to the carbon 4' and attache to theauxiliary support 5 at the same point, bein designed ,to replace thecarbon sheet t wen the latter is worn out or destroyed. A suitable covermember, as of Manila board,

may be folded to form a front 8 and a back 9, and the support 1 with itsattached pads may be attached to this cover, as bythe staples 5.

The manipulation of this book is as follows: The cover and the leaves ofthe pad 4: being thrown back, the pad 3 will be exposed through thenotched portion 6 of the transfer sheet. The upper sheet of the pad 3may now be grasped and drawn out from under the carbon. Thereupon thelast sheet of the pad 4 may be superposed upon the carbon and the uppersheet of the pad 3 placed thereupon. Any-record which is now made uponthe upper sheet will be transferred by the carbon to the second sheetdirectly, and transferred to the under side of the inter posed sheetfromthe pad 4: with its record reversed.

Should it be desired to make subsequent records before removing any ofthe slips, as when a salesman is taking orders at residences-to besubsequently taken to the establishment to be filled, the sheet from thepad 4 on which the record has been made may be placed between thesupport 5 and the support 1 and the original and duplicate records fromthe ad 3 may be folded down over the base of 'the pad, as shown at 10.The book is then in position to make a new record, using the third andfourth sheets of the pad 3 and the next to the last sheet from, the pad4, the manipulation be- I ing substantially the same as before. At

any time desired, as when the salesman returns to the establishment, oneor all of the records may be removed from the book and utilized for anypurpose desired, as for example, one copy may be sent to the customerwith the goods, one copy sent to the cashier in order that the propercharge may be made, and the triplicate or tissue copy may remain in thebook as a check for the salesman.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, among others,the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above" construction and manyapparentlywidely' different embodiments of this 1nvention could be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the above description or be interpreted illustrative andnot in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features ofthe invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of theinvention which, as a matter of language, might be said to falltherebetweeln' Having described my invcntion,"what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters leaves of the other pad, and a double facedtransfer sheet attached at the back of one of said pads, adapted to lieover the free ends of the leaves thereof and between any -twoadjacentaleaves thereof.

2. A manifolding device comprising, in combination, a support, twooverlapping pads of single ply leaves, each pad so connected to saidsupport as to permit any of its leaves to be placed above'or be neaththe other pad or between any two adjacent leaves of the other pad, and adouble being faced transfer sheet attached. at the back of one of saidpads adapted to lie over the free ends of the leaves thereof and betweenany two adjacent leaves thereof, all the leaves of one of said padsbeing translucent. In testimony whereof I affix my signature, intheprese'nce of two witnesses.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE. Witnesses: ARTHUR SHEPHEARD, A. L. GENTHUN.

